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Resilience of New Zealand indigenous forest fragments to impacts of livestock and pest mammals [PDF]

, 2011
A number of factors have combined to diminish ecosystem integrity in New Zealand indigenous lowland forest fragments surrounded by intensively grazed pasture.
King, Carolyn M., Burns, Bruce, Innes, John G., Didham, Raphael, Dodd, Mike, Smale, Mark, Watts, Corinne, Barker, Gary M.   +7 more
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Mono‐Material Polydisulfides for Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Tapes With Closed‐Loop Recyclability

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A high‐performance pressure‐sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape is developed where both the adhesive layer and plastic backing layer can be recycled back to monomer in a closed‐loop cycle. Both layers of the tape are composed of analogous polydisulfide copolymers using only two unique monomers, thus giving it a mono‐material design and enabling recycling of ...
Woojung Ham, Tyler M. Witt, Charles M. Hui, Joshua C. Worch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Forest Degradation and Regeneration Assessment Through Light Detection and Ranging and Hyperspectral Imaging Integration

Remote Sensing
Integrating Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) enhances the assessment of tropical forest degradation and regeneration, which is crucial for conservation and climate mitigation strategies.
Catherine Torres de Almeida, Lênio Soares Galvão, Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto, Aline Daniele Jacon, Francisca Rocha de Souza Pereira, Luciane Yumie Sato, Celso Henrique Leite Silva-Junior, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de Aragão   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contrasting Post-Fire Dynamics between Africa and South America based on MODIS Observations

Remote Sensing, 2019
Fire is an important driver of land cover change throughout the world, affecting processes such as deforestation, forest recovery and vegetation transition.
Lei Zhou, Yuhang Wang, Yonggang Chi, Shaoqiang Wang, Quan Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gradient‐Conductivity Architecture Enables Synchronous Enhancement of Sensitivity and Detection Range in Multifunctional All‐Paper Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A gradient‐engineered all‐paper sensor is fabricated by integrating MXene and in situ grown AgNPs within hierarchical cellulose networks. The device breaks the sensitivity–detection range trade‐off through cascaded conductive pathways, enabling ultrahigh pressure sensitivity, humidity–pressure decoupled dual‐mode sensing, and outstanding EMI shielding,
Ao Li, Jun Xu, Dezhong Xu, Zhaohui Zhang, Jiyi Li, Daxian Cao, Kefu Chen, Mizi Fan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Associated With Prolonged Length of Stay and Failed Lower Limb Prosthetic Fitting During Inpatient Rehabilitation

Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation, 2020
Objective: To identify variables associated with rehabilitation length of stay (LOS) and prosthetic fitting success for people with lower limb amputation (LLA). Design: Retrospective analysis of clinically collected cohort.
Michael Chislett, MSc, Michelle Ploughman, PhD, Jason McCarthy, MD   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
wiley   +1 more source

Degradation and Recovery in Changing Forest Landscapes

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2017
Conceptual confusion revolves around how to define, assess, and overcome land, ecosystem, and landscape degradation. Common elements link degradation and recovery processes, offering ways to advance local, regional, and global initiatives to reduce degradation and promote the recovery of ecosystems and landscapes in forest biomes.
Ghazoul, Jaboury, Chazdon, Robin
openaire   +1 more source

Desert Plant Inspired Hierarchical Nanofibrous Membranes for Integrated Solar Desalination and Heavy Metal Remediation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An Alhagi maurorum inspired hierarchical composite membrane (NFCu) was developed by integrating heavy metal remediation and solar‐driven interfacial evaporation in a single platform. Beyond the photothermal effect, a localized photocatalytic process is realized on the CuO surface, deepening the mechanistic understanding of light–matter–water ...
Yuqiong He, Ronggang Luo, Shengbo Ge, Kaixin Jiang, Kirsten Dyer, Xiaojian Zhou, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Guanben Du, Kaimeng Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Missing forest cover gains in boreal forests explained

Ecosphere, 2018
A recent global study reported a net difference between areas of forest cover loss and of forest cover gain of about 3.6% of total forest area across the boreal biome, and of 5.6% for Canada, over a 12‐yr period. Net losses of this magnitude should be of
Luc Guindon, Pierre Bernier, Sylvie Gauthier, Graham Stinson, Philippe Villemaire, André Beaudoin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source